Scott Smith (author)
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Scott Bechtel Smith (July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two suspense novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins. His screen adaptation of A Simple Plan earned him an Academy Award nomination. The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.
Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child.[1] After studying at Dartmouth College and graduating from Columbia University, he took up writing full time.
His second novel, The Ruins, was also adapted into a film, released on April 4, 2008. Stephen King called it "[t]he best horror novel of the new century." King had also called A Simple Plan "simply the best suspense novel of the year."
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[edit] Bibliography
- A Simple Plan (1993), ISBN 0-312-95271-6
- The Ruins (2006), ISBN 1-4000-4387-5
[edit] Translations
- Slovak (by Katarína Jusková): Ruiny. - Bratislava : Ikar 2006. ISBN 978-80-551-1369-2
- Sweden by someone "Ruinerna"
[edit] References
- ^ Prince, Tom. "Brief Lives: Making a Killing," New York, August 30, 1993, p. 48. Accessed February 20, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Scott B. Smith at the Internet Movie Database
- Online interview from CBC Words at Large
- New York Times Review
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